Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
I am the Director and Executive Producer at the Future of StoryTelling (FoST). I have spent my career curating and producing award winning content across mediums, including apps, films (documentary and narrative), animations, interactive experiences, and live experiences. Past clients and collaborators include Microsoft, Chanel, Adobe, Meta, Oculus Story Studio, Stella, The Brookings Institute, Terrence Malick, Spoon, and Tim Ferris. My projects have been written about in publications like The New York Times, WIRED, and Inc., and have won awards from or been featured by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sundance, Tribeca, Webby Awards, Apple, Vimeo and more.
The Future of StoryTelling summit is an annual event in New York City devoted to championing the art and commerce of storytelling in the digital age. This invitation-only, multidisciplinary summit draws leaders from the worlds of traditional media, CMOs from Fortune 100 companies, and the top innovators and creatives from the tech community. Unlike a traditional conference, FoST features intimate, speaker-led roundtables; immersive experiences; hands-on master classes; exclusive studio tours; and interactive exhibitions. The FoST online community has grown to a community of nearly a million people. I oversee programming of speakers and workshop leaders for the summit. I have overseen the Future of StoryTelling (FoST) film series since it's inception in 2012. We partner speakers with filmmakers and animators in advance of the conference and oversee production of short films that creatively embody our speakers' insights. We first work with the speakers to distill their subject into a core set of ideas, then find world class filmmakers and animators from around the world to help us creatively bring those ideas to life. Our films have been viewed millions of times. Since 2017 I've oversee our FoST for Good initiative, where our goal is to harness the amazing intellectual and creative braintrust of our community of expert storytellers to help address communication challenges faced by nonprofits that are tackling some of the most important issues of our time. The 2017 FoST for Good participants included Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, Sierra Club, Glaad, and Democracy Prep.
Melcher Media is a New York City-based storytelling company. I work with Melcher as an Executive Producer helping produce videos, animations, apps and websites. Clients include Facebook, Adobe, The Brookings Institute, and Stella Artois.
I founded Shortstack in 2010 to do what I love–make creative, educational, fun apps for kids. My apps all have 4 or 5 star ratings, have been featured by Apple, MSNBC.com, and were nominated for the Best App Ever awards in the family category. We make both iOS and Android apps. Projects include iOS apps "Splish Splash Inn" and "Photo Safari!" and "Stop and Go!" http://shortstackapps.com/
Producer for mobile applications, focusing on apps for kids. Projects included bringing a Thomas the Train app to Android, and working on a couple of very cute Paul Frank apps.
Designed and Produced mobile applications and interactive media kiosks for museum environments. Projects include iOS apps Peekaboo Barn and Peekaboo Wild, and Make Your Own Fragrance kiosk at Longwood Gardens. Peekabook Barn was one of the first apps to be released for toddlers, since 2008 it has been played over 80 million times worldwide, has been a top 20 educational game on the iTunes store nearly every day since its launch, and has been featured by Apple, The New York Times and The Washington Post.